Collin v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2007
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Monroe v. Pape · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.